UQP acquires new Neave novel
UQP has acquired ANZ rights to a ‘stunning’ second novel from Lucy Neave, via Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Set between the US and Australia, Believe In Me focuses...
Van Neerven, Sakr to host new UQP poetry podcast
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) will launch its new monthly poetry podcast Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times on 10 July. The podcast, supported by Copyright Agency funding, will be...
UQP acquires debut essay collection by Nyuon
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired a collection of essays on identity by South Sudanese–Australian lawyer, community advocate, writer and public speaker Nyadol Nyuon. Nyuon is a lawyer...
UQP to present gender equality award in honour of Quentin Bryce
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has established a new award, named in honour of former Governor General Quentin Bryce, that celebrates women’s lives or promotes gender equality. Established in...
UQP acquires new poetry collection by Ellen van Neerven
UQP has acquired world rights to Ellen van Neerven’s second poetry collection, Throat. Throat is described by the publisher as 'a collection of poems about whiteness, climate change, extinctions; about...
Best wins 2019 Thomas Shapcott Prize
Poet Luke Best has won the 2019 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript ‘Cadaver Dog’. Best receives $2000 and a publishing contract with University of Queensland Press (UQP), which...
Schulz to resign from UQP after 11 years
UQP children’s and YA publisher Kristina Schulz will resign from the position, after an 11-year tenure with the publisher. Schulz began with UQP in 2008 and during her time commissioned...
UQP sells world English rights to ‘The Lost Arabs’ to Andrews McMeel Universal
UQP has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Omar Sakr’s poetry collection The Lost Arabs to US-based Andrews McMeel Universal. UQP publishing director Madonna Duffy said the deal came...
UQP acquires Chris Flynn novel in two-book deal
UQP has acquired world rights to Chris Flynn’s novel Mammoth, as well as a short story collection, in a two-book deal. Set mostly in the US, Mammoth is narrated by...
James appointed director of UQP
Ben James has been appointed director of the University of Queensland Press (UQP), effective from 25 March. James will replace Jill Eddington, who retired from the position of CEO in...
UQP acquires Khatun, Whittaker, Elvery
UQP has announced a number of acquisitions made by publisher Aviva Tuffield across the publisher’s trade, scholarly and poetry lists. Tuffield acquired ANZ rights to Australian-Bangladeshi historian Samia Khatun’s Australianama:...
UQP signs Kurmelovs in two-book deal
UQP has acquired ANZ rights to two books by Royce Kurmelovs via Melanie Ostell Literary. The first book, Just Money: A Story of Debt and the Bankers and Crooks Who Created It,...
Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for ‘Dancing Home’
Paul Collis has won the 2018 ACT Book of the Year for his novel Dancing Home (UQP). Dancing Home, which won the 2016 David Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript,...
UQP acquires Riwoe’s historical novel ‘On Gold Mountain’
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to historical novel On Gold Mountain by Brisbane-based writer Mirandi Riwoe. Set on the goldfields of north Queensland during the...
Jacobson wins 2018 Thomas Shapcott Prize
Poet Anna Jacobson has won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript ‘I know I may not escape unscathed’. Jacobson receives $2000 and a publishing contract with University...
UQP acquires Mundell’s second novel
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to The Trespassers, the second novel by Melbourne-based author Meg Mundell. Martin Shaw from Alex Adsett Publishing Services sold rights...
Tuffield joins UQP
UQP has announced the appointment of Aviva Tuffield to the publishing team. Tuffield joins UQP this week but will remain based in Melbourne. She will acquire fiction and nonfiction for the Brisbane-based publisher, and will...
Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal
Shastra Deo’s debut poetry collection The Agonist (UQP) has won the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Deo’s collection was chosen from a shortlist of six that included Peter Carey,...
UQP sells ‘The Geography of Friendship’ to UK
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...
UQP acquires Birch’s new novel ‘The White Girl’
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired author Tony Birch’s third novel, The White Girl. World (including translation) rights were acquired by UQP publishing director and acting-CEO Madonna Duffy, as...